Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin once again asked the media to stop criticising the slow and spin-friendly Indian pitches, adding he was fed up answering the oft-repeated questions.
“I don’t know why these jibes come back at us. Honestly it looks like a jibe [from] where you are looking at Indian wickets. It does honestly,” Ashwin said after stumps on day two of the second Test between India and England in Visakhapatnam.
“You guys watched the game through the day and [the] pitch is something you can definitely assess better than we do,” he added, on a day that saw England struggle to 103/5 in response to India’s first innings total of 455.
“Honestly, one day I would like to walk into a press conference and stop answering questions on the pitch because that’s as good as [an] Indian pitch one can get,” he said.
Ashwin, who claimed two wickets on Friday, said he liked bowling on this Vizag track. “I was able to get the ball hang in the air also drift onto the batsmen and kind of straighten it from the stump line. I enjoyed it. The wicket can deteriorate over a period of time. This is only going to get tougher to bat.”
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